dwoldrich

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by dwoldrich 4d ago
> actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity Our public education is so pozzed in Dem/Blue states, though; that has nothing to do with ethnic makeup in the students. Bloated budgets
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by dwoldrich 4d ago
You are absolutely right. It could be: * Pull up the ladder (probably this) * Gulf of Tonkin/Yellow Cake false flag premise for war (economic or kinetic) * Fear of the big bad, space race we need public funding research grift AI Manha
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by dwoldrich 6d ago
They are thinking of the more common definition of pathological, which is mental disease/disorder. In the computer-related definition, it means failed outcome contrary to what was expected Yours is a reasonable meaning assuming you me
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by dwoldrich 11d ago
Life is risky and annoying, I can't deny it. But more fundamentally why were you put here? To make the bosses' numbers look good? Your private numbers? Boil it all down to intended and actual outcomes. What have we been been
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by dwoldrich 11d ago
I love the compartmentalization people can do when it comes to corruption. Willfully blind to "my team", the propaganda is so thick. Life will get interesting when 89% of people learn about the regular corruption in elections and
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by dwoldrich 12d ago
You know what? With a little planning, anyone can get it done. You can have your cake and eat it too. I know, you're on Hacker News, you gotta ship code and sell your startups, but hear me out. Starting a family in your 40's real
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by dwoldrich 12d ago
People don't read enough great books, and bedtime stories are indeed an opportunity missed. The whole point is to slow them down and put em to bed. So read a real book to them, whatever you like. Sets a good example to read real thin
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by dwoldrich 14d ago
NPC's have no agency. They're lines in the main character's story and otherwise forgotten. There is a negative karma to putting this kind of nihilistic message out into the world. Obviously everyone should shoot for the sta
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by dwoldrich 17d ago
[philosophical mode ON, please don't take too seriously/personally if you care to engage] You may have seen the regular stream of youtube videos in your feed with the hook that reads something like "humans will be obsolete in
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by dwoldrich 19d ago
Value is now only _extracted_. Place the acquired good into the press and smash it until all but the faintest essence remains among the mash. The squeezings are bottled and saved to pay for future _extractions_. Companies like Valve can c
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by dwoldrich 21d ago
Never let a good crisis go to waste, billg.
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by dwoldrich 25d ago
I think the industry would benefit from some general evangelism for observability. Being able to do distributed tracing was both a "well, duh" and mindblown experience when I first learned about it a decade ago. It made supporti
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by dwoldrich 27d ago
I didn't flag you @palmotea, I prefer to keep the conversation going. I am sympathetic to your frustration, but your words have meaning, whether you are conscious of them or not and those meanings are as far as I can go to meet your m
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by dwoldrich 27d ago
It's amazing how much discourse is just people pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible. Asinine means "utterly silly or stupid" and "ass-like". You can't separate criticizing the p
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by dwoldrich 28d ago
I value your experience! I agree with you the insane buildout does not make sense. The rapidly approaching optimizations in the inference space will eliminate 99% of the current compute requirements. So what do they really need all the g
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by dwoldrich 28d ago
> asinine See? You think people who disagree with you are stupid! When you run a simulation of what what is going on in others' heads, do you envision a sucking void? You ascribe no nuance to me at all. In fact, what if your enti
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by dwoldrich 28d ago
I love how you're working through all this! There are indeed two sides to every coin. > Alright then. So I suppose you think that was "a backyard issue... [and] it [was] politics to hate on [smog]," and so the expensive e
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by dwoldrich 29d ago
I try to be a fun person. But, no it wasn't satire. I find this latest satanic panic to be so cringe. If you crave religion, I suggest you find a bible and get to know Jesus because the post-modernist stuff blows.
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by dwoldrich 29d ago
Burning down Tesla dealerships and exploding a cybertruk in front of the Trump hotel in Las Vegas was oRgAnIc and had nothing to do with the machine retaliating against Elon for boosting Trump's effort to (allegedly) go after corruptio
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by dwoldrich 29d ago
Have you seen pictures of Los Angeles from space? It's a grey speck. I grew up in the smog layer, let me tell you it was disgusting and I'm sure it gave me respiratory disease. But from space, the smog blowing off every day loo
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by dwoldrich 29d ago
My thinking is most aligned with yours relative to all the other replies. Short term tulip bulb mania pricing on vidya game hardware is annoying and making me delay purchases. And my concerns for long term are about what all that heavy com
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by dwoldrich 29d ago
I cannot figure out if this data center panic is legit or trumped up. There are legitimate nation-state and political entities that would love to create pressure for degrowth in this area. And, pollution and natural resources are a concer
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by dwoldrich 29d ago
Classy guy, showing how it's done
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by dwoldrich 1mo ago
.. and I want more for myself and everyone else. And I don't feel bad about it. In fact, degrowthers can pound sand and cry about it. There is power in controlling people through upheaval and degrowth. I delight when those self-servin
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by dwoldrich 1mo ago
Spin 'em off Microsoft, you are terrible at this.
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by dwoldrich 2mo ago
Sounds like a threat
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by dwoldrich 2mo ago
I don't disagree with you that freely distributed software on conveniently licensed terms is going to be the go-to stance for the majority of solo and non-commercial developers. I just believe I could arrange the universe such that I g
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by dwoldrich 2mo ago
For libraries, I like the Gnu Affero Public License[1]. If you run the library in software with that license, you have to publish all the source of the entire project that incorporates it. No corporation could tolerate this, though, so the
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by dwoldrich 2mo ago
Element.scrollHeight first appeared in the DOM API with IE6 in 2001 as far as I can tell. That browser was the first really modern one, with javascript and CSS that could drive a dynamic layout and they innovated with things like AJAX and
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by dwoldrich 2mo ago
Because an LLM is the only way to express intelligence with a computer. So your conception of ram/cpu/storage/networks and learning (training on huge corpus of data) is the only way to do artificial intelligence? LLM's

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